Stupid News for 5/1/14

A shirtless man asked KTLA anchor Courtney Friel out on a date while she was reporting live from the scene of a massive fire near Rancho Cucamonga. Friel approaches the man to get his reaction to the fire, he looks up and says, "Wow. You're super pretty. Want to go on a date sometime?" Friel informed him they were live on air but he didn't seem fazed. He was a local resident who came out shirtless, holding his dog, to watch the fire which he described as "pretty cool."

A mother in Washington is upset after a teacher at her daughter’s middle school allegedly gave students an assignment that required them to pick cotton so that they could "see what it was like to be a slave." Carolyn Walker called Redmond Middle School to inform them that her daughter would not be doing the assignment and later found out the teacher gave her daughter an F. She says, "My daughter is African American and for her to pick cotton when her grandparents were raised on a plantation to pick cotton, is not OK, it's not OK at all. It's not just about my daughter, all races should not have to participate in this. It's wrong, it's absolutely wrong."

An Ohio grandfather became so frustrated when he couldn’t get his “lazy” grandson to do his chores that he called 911 to report him to authorities. Edward Friel called emergency dispatchers in South Amherst after his 17-year-old grandson Justin allegedly punched a hole in the wall because the Internet got shut off. Friel apparently cut the house’s Internet cord because he couldn’t get the teen to stop playing games on his computer and help out around the house. When police arrived, Friel told them that his grandson called him names and stormed out after he disabled the Internet. According to Friel, his grandson is “lazy and does nothing around the house. No charges were filed in the case and Friel said he “would handle the discipline” himself.